VR/AR, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Artificial Intelligence and The Internet of Things

The goal: build predictive models to tailor interventions earlier. Because preventative medicine is the best medicine, especially when it comes to mental health.

To DeepMind’s credit, its new project depends less on trendy ideas than an apparent desire to solve a real problem in the real world–one that involves the most private and personal information.

In this interview, Nobel Laureate Robert Shiller of Yale and Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel discuss how the income distribution gap became so wide, and they offer possible solutions.

The good news is, artificial intelligence can’t exist without humans making it. The bad news is – if it’s bad news at all – the technology is already here and it’s only going to evolve.

"I deeply believe that saying that there is an innovation department ensures that you don’t innovate anywhere else."

Part of the confusion about artificial intelligence is in the name itself.

Cortana is an intelligent assistant (agent) that "can take text input, can take speech input, and that knows you deeply."

He stated, "deep artificial intelligence, or artificial general intelligence, where you can have artificial intelligence that is much smarter than the smartest human on Earth, this is a dangerous situation."

In the "Smart Age" now evolving, ego has no place.

Instead, the focus will need to be on the quality of ideas, accuracy, emotional intelligence and mindfulness.

"This revolution," Brin said, "has been very profound and definitely surprised me even though I was right in there and could throw paper clips at them."